Top 10: Buddy Scenes

Top 10 All-Time Greatest Buddy Scenes

The Journal of Popular Film and Television theorises that buddy flicks appeared in the 1970s to counterbalance the feminist movement. "To punish women for their desire for equality, the buddy film pushes them out of the center of the narrative and replaces the traditional central romantic relationship between a man and a woman with a buddy relationship between two men,” it states. That’s a long-winded way of saying, “bros before hos.”

In the last 30-plus years of buddy cinema, only a few films rise above the rest, and even fewer have perfect buddy scenes. A textbook buddy moment is where the relationship is validated -- like a renewal of buddy vows. The characters’ personalities shine and they’re completely comfortable being themselves. It’s often a funny scene, but not always. Above all, it’s a completely sincere moment between men.